Hi!

After successfully compiled and installed mythTV, it complains about not finding the "blue"-theme. Comparing my installation with my working knoppixmyth-box, the themes are installed in the right directory and the permissions seems right. Anyone knows whats wrong? There does not seem to be any way of telling mythtv where the themes are installed, not during execution(mythtv-setup --help) or during compiletime(configure --help).
Where should the theme files be installed by default? And what configfiles are used to set the theme-paths?

Thanx!

// Henrik

All the configuration is in the database. Mostly in the "settings" table.

Have you looked at the log files? Posting exact error messages is also very helpful...

When you compiled from source, what prefix did you use?

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cesman

When the source is open, the possibilities are endless!

yo, had this problem before...

You should've done:

./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-XXX etc

If not then everything is now in usr/local/, rather than the knoppmyth default of /usr

To Solve

# cp -r /usr/share/mythtv /usr/local/share/mythtv

You will notice other errors though. One of which is that the 'fonts' will be missing when trying to Watch tv.... so you'll need to copy these from the old directory aswell. I also had another minor problem that I never solved with the loss of the OSD in Watch TV.... so personally I'd recommend you recompile.

Ok, some background..

I have a knoppixmyth box i my livingroom, working great.
The thing that bugs me is that it have to be powered on 24h to be able to record scheduled programs and sync the EPG(xmltv). I have tried nvram_wakeup and other programs to make the machine bootup only when needed, but it has not worked flawless.
Since my fileserver at home is running 24/7 anyway, i thought i'll move the mythtv-backend to that machine, and keep the knoppixmyth-box as a frontend.

I have installed xmltv and all required libs, downloaded mythtv-0.18.1 source.
compiled it with:
./configure --prefix=/tmp/tv/usr/local/ --disable-distcc --disable-joystick-menu --disable-ivtv --enable-dvb --dvb-path=/usr/src/linux/include/ --enable-dvb-eit

I then run "makepkg -l y mythtv_0.18.1.tgz" in /tmp/tv. (running slackware on this machine).

That will make a pakage that when installed will install mythtv in /usr/local/

I have also tried to compile it with --prefix=/usr, but the result is the same.
After installation /usr/local/share/mythtv/themes/ contains all the themes directorys, but mythtv-setup still complains about the missing blue-theme.

Here is an error log:
root@Lizard:~# mythtv-setup
2005-10-05 10:09:58.341 New DB connection, total: 1
Total desktop width=1024, height=768, numscreens=1
2005-10-05 10:09:58.353 Using screen 0, 1024x768 at 0,0
2005-10-05 10:09:58.368 Setting Lock for Database Schema upgrade. If you see a long pause here it means the Schema is already locked and is being upgraded by another Myth process.
2005-10-05 10:09:58.371 New DB connection, total: 2
2005-10-05 10:09:58.373 Inserting MythTV initial database information.
2005-10-05 10:09:58.375 New DB connection, total: 3
2005-10-05 10:09:58.376 Upgrading to schema version 1060
2005-10-05 10:09:58.602 New DB connection, total: 4
2005-10-05 10:09:58.605 Upgrading to schema version 1061
2005-10-05 10:09:58.645 Upgrading to schema version 1062
2005-10-05 10:09:58.654 Upgrading to schema version 1063
2005-10-05 10:09:58.758 Upgrading to schema version 1064
2005-10-05 10:09:58.765 Upgrading to schema version 1065
2005-10-05 10:09:58.846 Upgrading to schema version 1066
2005-10-05 10:09:58.882 Upgrading to schema version 1067
2005-10-05 10:09:58.884 Upgrading to schema version 1068
2005-10-05 10:09:58.887 Upgrading to schema version 1069
2005-10-05 10:09:58.899 Upgrading to schema version 1070
2005-10-05 10:09:58.902 Upgrading to schema version 1071
2005-10-05 10:09:58.904 Upgrading to schema version 1072
2005-10-05 10:09:58.941 Upgrading to schema version 1073
2005-10-05 10:09:58.950 Upgrading to schema version 1074
2005-10-05 10:09:58.959 Upgrading to schema version 1075
2005-10-05 10:09:58.963 Upgrading to schema version 1076
2005-10-05 10:09:58.989 Upgrading to schema version 1077
2005-10-05 10:09:58.998 Upgrading to schema version 1078
2005-10-05 10:09:59.001 Upgrading to schema version 1079
2005-10-05 10:09:59.011 Upgrading to schema version 1080
2005-10-05 10:09:59.019 Upgrading to schema version 1081
2005-10-05 10:09:59.040 Upgrading to schema version 1082
2005-10-05 10:09:59.061 Upgrading to schema version 1083
2005-10-05 10:09:59.069 Database Schema upgrade complete, unlocking.
Could not find theme: blue
2005-10-05 10:09:59.089 Switching to square mode (blue)
Could not find theme:
Could not find theme: blue
Couldn't find theme blue
If this is the master backend server:
Now, please run 'mythfilldatabase' to populate the database
with channel information.

Any ideas?